Turner & Townsend Hiring for Information Security Assistant at Leeds Full Time

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 110 offices worldwide.

We are looking to recruit an Information Security Assistant to join our existing Information Security team.

Working with the Information Security team to coordinate our daily checks, security monitoring and end user support across our environment.

As a member of the IT Security team, you will be exposed to all aspects of our IT environment and its components. The successful candidate will be required to work with the Information Security team to identify and resolve security related issues.

We believe this is an excellent opportunity for candidates seeking to advance their current information security or infrastructure career with a willingness to work in a fast-paced environment

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• General day-to-day support on managing and responding to security alerts from systems and end users
• Perform daily, weekly, and monthly security checks, reconciliation and compliance checks and investigate exceptions
• Identify and raise awareness of security risks
• Assist the wider IT team in addressing security queries and issues
• Take a proactive role within the Information Security team
• Help develop user and technical training guides
• Maintain and manage the IT Risk register to ensure that IT risks are regularly reviewed, correctly identified, assessed, reported and mitigated in line with recommended best practices
• Test DR plans and capabilities to ensure they work as designed, identifying gaps and lessons learnt and work with the business to drive continual development and enhancement

Technical Requirements

• Two years hands-on working experience in a similar role
• Experience of working within a Security Operations Centre (SOC)
• Experience of security and/or infrastructure within a production environment
• Awareness of information security and standards including Cyber Essentials, ISO 27001, 27002 etc. Data Protection Act and the General Data Protection Regulation
• Microsoft O365 Security solutions; Networking; Security operations; Vulnerability Management; Security Auditing
• Good understanding of security testing principles, including experience of penetration testing, identifying, resolving, and reporting risks
• Experience of formal document creation, such as the creation of reports or procedures
• Experience of carrying out risk reviews, technology audits or other similar work

Detailed knowledge of:

• Microsoft O365 environment
• Threat Intelligence analysis and best practice
• Security Incident Response processes, procedures, and best practices
• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity principles and testing methodologies
• Risk analysis and data management methodologies
• Event and log analysis

Core Behavioural Skills:

• Confident individual with the good interpersonal skills, able to deal with people at all levels and
• communicate to users in a clear, non-technical language
• Team-player
• Analytically minded, able to break down and understand information
• Must be comfortable with working in a fast-moving, dynamic environment
• Strongly customer-focused, used to providing support to demanding users
• Good organisational skills, used to managing and prioritising own workload
• Ability to report on progress, timescales, outstanding and completed activities

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

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SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.